Aniday Joins One of the 50 Fastest Growing Companies in 2026

We are thrilled to announce that Aniday has officially earned a spot on the FI 50 Fastest Growing Companies 2026 list by the Founder Institute the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, operating across 200+ cities and 100+ countries.

This recognition is a testament to the progress our team has made alongside our clients, our headhunters. Out of thousands of alumni companies reviewed globally, Aniday was selected as one of 50 standout startups that demonstrated exceptional growth in 2025-2026 and one of only two Vietnamese companies to make the main list.

What the FI 50 Is 

The FI 50 is not a self-nomination award. Each year, the Founder Institute's global team reviews its alumni portfolio a network that has produced 9,000+ companies and helped raise over $2 billion in funding and selects the 50 companies that demonstrated the most genuine, verifiable growth during the review period.

Selection criteria go beyond fundraising. The panel evaluates revenue growth, team expansion, strategic partnerships, market penetration, and notable press or industry recognition. Companies from sectors as different as fintech, defense tech, sustainable packaging, and health AI all made this year's list. Getting included means standing out not just within a vertical, but across an entire global portfolio.

"This recognition from the Founder Institute validates what we've been building over the past few years, a platform that genuinely changes how companies expand across Asia. We're not trying to build just another recruitment platform. We're building the strong infrastructure for the next generation of cross-border employment in the region."

-- Toan Nguyen, Founder & CEO, Aniday

The Model Headhunting Meets Employer of Record

Aniday operates at the intersection of two traditionally separate HR functions: talent sourcing and employment compliance. Most platforms pick one lane. Aniday runs both and adds a third layer that makes the combination uniquely scalable.

At its core, Aniday is a marketplace. Companies post open roles, and a network of more than 50,000 independent headhunters across Asia tries to fill them. Headhunters earn performance-based rewards only when a placement is successful, which means their incentives are fully aligned with the client's outcome, not with the volume of resumes submitted.

On top of that, Aniday's Employer of Record (EOR) infrastructure handles the legal and compliance layer: contracts, payroll, social insurance contributions, and local labor law requirements across Asian markets. The result is an end-to-end hiring pipeline that takes a company from "we need to hire in Vietnam" to "new employee onboarded and compliant" without requiring a local legal entity or an expensive retained agency relationship.

"What makes Aniday different is that we've combined the reach of a distributed headhunter network with the compliance backbone of a full EOR platform. Companies expanding across Asia no longer have to choose between speed and legality, they can have both."

-- Kim  Nguyen, Co-Founder & COO, Aniday

Aniday Among a Global Cohort

The FI 50 2026 class reflects the breadth of what the Founder Institute has built across its global alumni network. Alongside Aniday, this year's list includes:

• Esusu (US) raised a $50M Series C at a $1.2B valuation in December 2025

• Checkbox (Australia) AI legal workflow platform that raised a $23M Series A at a $100M+ valuation in January 2026

• OpenCommerce Group (Vietnam) reached $35M in annual revenue with sellers across 195 countries

• TransTRACK (Indonesia) fleet management platform with a $12M Series A in 2024

• Aonic (Malaysia) drone solutions provider with $60M+ in annual revenue, profitable since 2023

Aniday is one of only two Vietnamese companies on the main FI 50 list this year, alongside OpenCommerce Group. That is a meaningful signal given that Vietnam's startup ecosystem, while increasingly active, has fewer companies reaching the scale thresholds the FI 50 requires compared to more mature hubs like Singapore or Indonesia.

A Win That Belongs to Our Team and Our Clients

Growth metrics like these do not happen in isolation. They are the product of every hiring manager who trusted the platform with a critical role, every headhunter who brought a quality candidate to the table, and every internal team member who kept the matching engine, compliance processes, and client relationships running at pace.

"Every number in our growth story represents a person who got hired and a company that expanded into a new market. That's what drives us. Not the metrics themselves, but what they stand for real businesses, real careers, real momentum across Asia."

-- Toan Nguyen, Founder & CEO, Aniday

Being recognized on the FI 50 validates that direction and it also raises the bar for what comes next.

What's Next

Aniday continues to expand its headhunter network and EOR coverage across key Asian markets, with a focus on deepening platform capabilities for mid-to-senior specialist hiring in technology, finance, and operations roles positions where the sourcing challenge is most acute and where a distributed headhunter network provides the most meaningful advantage over traditional job boards.

For companies evaluating how to scale their teams across Asia without the overhead of entity setup or the opacity of retained agency relationships, exploring Aniday in detail at https://aniday.com/.

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